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Old 01-26-2017, 10:12 PM   #1133
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Originally Posted by flylock shox View Post
The trickle before the flood probably.

People tend to forget that the civil service - the ordinary workaday civil servants whose careers span multiple changes in leadership - actually wield a lot of power if they act en masse. I would expect, and hope, we'll see more of this as Trump tries to clamp down on more and more departments.
This would be treason. Yes, it would. The bureaucracy, in an ideal world (yes, yes), doesn't get to make decisions that fall along the lines of open revolt against their elected masters.
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